.... Chinese New Years traditions: house cleaning, decorations, lots of food, and more for their celebration. Chinese New Year is a time of special celebration and joy; therefore many old customs and performances are incorporated into the festival celebrations and competitions held on Chinese New Years. The most common of these are perhaps the dragon dance and lion dance. The dragon dance was already a popular activity by the Sung Dynasty(960-1279A.D.), and has continued to be so up to the present. The dragon mask and boy used in the dance may be gold, green, variegated, or firey red. The dance may be performed in the d .....

.... the pure, in opposition to an establishment populated by the elderly, the weak, and the dissolute. Hitler was born in a small town in Austria in 1889. As a young boy, he showed little ambition. After dropping out of high school, he moved to Vienna to study art, but he was denied the chance to join Vienna academy of fine arts. When WWI broke out, Hitler joined Kaiser Wilhelmer's army as a Corporal. He was not a person of great importance. He was a creature of a Germany created by WWI, and his behavior was shaped by that war and its consequences. He had emerged from Austria with many prejudices, including a powerful prejudice a .....

.... one of the most serious transportation challenges facing State legislatures today. Ricardo Martinez, federal administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has declared that is now the Number One traffic problem. The New York Times reported a poll in Washington, D.C., showing that 42% of the residents rate aggressive drivers as the biggest threat on the road, followed by drunk drivers (35%). The problem is so serious that insurance companies are devising ways to deny insurance to aggressive drivers and cut rates for peaceful drivers. (James PG) Verbal is the most common form of . The natural cycl .....

.... to reinforce what has already been learned and take on a path to higher education. Effective Learning 1501 reinforces our basics and teaches us better study habits that will be helpful in the future. Studies conducted by the University of Alabama show that teachers are not teaching students ways to better study habits. They are not taught study habits because it is no longer in the public school curriculum. Instead it has been replaced with skills of freethinking and philosophy. These skills are not needed because elementary school students haven’t been taught the basics. In conclusion, I’d like to say that our public schoo .....

.... confusion, both sides had flags that strongly resembled one another. Neither army could, at a distance, distinguish the Red, White and Blue of the Union's Stars and Stripes from the Confederacy's Stars and Bars (which had been patterned after the flag of the original thirteen American Colonies). All these similarities, and the need to establish some unique identity, ultimately gave birth to what is known today as the Confederate Battle Flag. The Battle Flag was patterned after the cross of Saint Andrew, an apostle of Christ who was bound, rather than nailed, to the "X" shaped cross to prolong his suffering. The design of th .....

.... etc. - fair play with honor and respect. At the end, there still was a winner, and the winner ended up with more respect and admiration from those concerned that had he fought without chivalry. What am I getting at? Capitalism can be much the same way. American businesses have taken advantage of this system though, a system that one can cheat in and get away with, instead of being honorable and respectable institutions that children could look up to. So many things are like this that I just shake my head and sigh when I think about them - is American just a scam? Where did all the honor and respect go? In "Sir Gawain and the Gre .....

.... in strategic positions; however this proved slow as each method had to be verified to ensure message accuracy. Following the discovery and partial understanding of electricity in the 18th Century scientists looked towards a way of relaying messages electronically. This attracted great interest because of the speed and efficiency such a system would bring, nevertheless it was not until 1837 that the first practical telegraph system was produced. In the years that followed various offshoots were announced, modern telex systems are an improved version of this basic concept. Now that the basic frontiers of ele .....

.... else, but they had to perform the dirty work of killing approximately 83,000 Jews. Christopher Browning states in his book, Ordinary Men, that, “...the men of Reserve Police Battalion 101, like most of the German society, was immersed in a deluge of racist and anti-Semitic propaganda” (Browning 184). Unless placed in the Battalion men's situation, one can not fathom how a population of people can so evilly turn against another. People in every culture are susceptible to the ideas and beliefs brought upon them by propaganda. Whenever an idea is accepted as the ‘norm', people will find a way to justify it and follow i .....

.... with a parent or teacher, it is because he has a need. The child’s organism is in a state of “disequilibrium” because there is something going on inside him. He wants, or needs something. In order to bring the organism back to a state of equilibrium the child begins to talk. Gordon gives the example of hunger. When a child is hungry, he must communicate his hunger to someone else. He selects a signal he thinks represents his hunger to the other person. The child picks a code (encoding process) and perhaps says, “When is dinner ready, mom?” The mother might decode the message accurately and understand that the child is .....

.... The second half of the experiment was basically done in the same way; but this time I asked for them to tear out pictures that they would want their wives to look like. With four different magazines they tore out pictures of more conservetly dressed women. Their selection still consisted of beautiful women, only this time they were wearing clothes that the average person would be able to wear on the streets and not be called a dirty name. The women were still beautifully made up the a hair and makeup but this time it wasn't so dramatic; their poises were also "innocent"; I'm not surprised. But what did surprise me thoug .....